Here And Now

After meeting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said: “I indicated to him that the overwhelming sentiment of my house is to renew (the millionaire’s tax) and to do it.”

This is an about-face for Silver, who previously had admitted the millionaire’s tax had little chance of moving in the Senate or being approved by Cuomo – a position of which the NY Observer approved.

The Bloomberg and Cuomo administrations are at war over last in, first out.

Just minutes after Mayor Bloomberg’s preferred LIFO bill squeaked through the Senate in a 33-27 vote, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced he would introduce and aggressively champion his own teacher evaluation bill.

Bloomberg aides dismissed Cuomo’s plan as a “sham” and a sell-out to the UFT, but UFT President Michael Mulgrew said it appears “far superior” to the measure the mayor has been pushing.

“We can look at long-term ways to use merit to evaluate teachers – nothing wrong with that. But we have a problem now, and we need the governor to help us now,” the mayor said.

Bloomberg granted a permit for the Feast of San Gennaro to continue its full-length festival in September.

Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch caused a stir at the Capitol during his brief lobbying swing for redistricting reform.

Koch has pledged to spend $100,000 on robocalls against lawmakers who are renegging on their redistricting reform pledge, but he’s adopting a wait-and-see attitude – for the moment – with the Senate GOP.